Clark, Ray: - Ray Clark is an award-winning Yorkshire born author. Ray's writing career has been quite varied with publications covering short story collections, horror novels, stand-alone cross genre novels and crime. The highly acclaimed IMP series, featuring detectives Gardener and Reilly in the Yorkshire city of Leeds, which begins with IMPURITY, is published by The Book Folks. Over the last forty years Ray has also spent considerable time in the music industry working both in the UK and Europe as a guitar vocalist with a number of bands. These days Ray divides his time between writing books and working live on the music scene, and helping to raise money for the OPA, a charity he feels quite close to.